Excerpt from Science Friday: (click for entire article)
In 2004, journalist Eliette Markhbein was struck by a car while riding her bike. The collision split her helmet in half “like a ripe watermelon,” and left Markhbein with injuries to her spine and brain. Her life, she says, was changed forever.
As she struggled to recover, Markhbein started painting, to take her mind off of the physical and emotional pain she was experiencing. “When I was painting I did not have to face my injury. It was addictive. It was better than morphine,” she says.


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